Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Condominium, MacDonald...
CONDOMINIUM by JOHN D. MacDONALD 447 pages. Lippincott...
...mighty and rather moralistic hurricane undoes the tacky works of man-notably, several cheap-Jack old-folks' dwellings built in the Florida Keys. John D. MacDonald, author of the Travis McGee thrillers, does not include his detective hero in this large, motley cast. Pity, McGee's cynicism disguises the passion of an exasperated environmentalist. His mesomorphic Floridian would have collared the dredgers and developers, and punched the crooked county commissioners in the chops...
Along the way, the reader can enjoy MacDonald's acid descriptions of the Sunbelt boneyards and debate his bleak editorial: given the depredations of the bulldozer, if there is a golden age in America it is far more likely to be enjoyed in Keokuk than in Fort Lauderdale...
...Condominium, MacDonald...